Trading Honestly: read the battle

16 price action mistakes that keep traders losing



Most trading books teach you a pattern. This one teaches you your own mistakes.

Most day traders don't fail because they can't find setups. They fail because of a small, repeating set of mistakes: chasing entries, moving stops, forcing patterns, trading without a plan for being wrong, that show up again and again until they're finally recognized for what they are.

This book names sixteen of them plainly, the way a trader who's made every single one would explain them to someone who wants to trade the correct way. Each chapter shows the mistake in action, what handling it well looks like instead, and a concrete checklist and action step to apply to your own trading.



In this book you will:

- read structure instead of chasing candlestick shapes;
- build a stop-loss that actually protects your account;
- size every position by calculation, not by feel;
- recognize FOMO, revenge trading, and backwards discipline before they cost you;
- journal and test your own trading like a professional.


John Noordstrand is the owner of Prytaneum.